{"id":57,"date":"2019-12-07T14:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T14:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/content\/pennyrile-electric-names-new-president-ceo\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T20:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:54:40","slug":"pennyrile-electric-names-new-president-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/pennyrile-electric-names-new-president-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennyrile Electric Names New President &amp; CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alan Gates has been selected as Pennyrile Electric\u2019s next President and Chief Executive Officer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cooperative\u2019s Board of Directors announced their decision this morning at the monthly board meeting to name Alan Gates as Pennyrile Electric\u2019s President &amp; CEO. Gates, who has most recently filled the role of vice president of operations and technical services, has held several positions throughout his tenure. Gates was hired in 1989 as an engineering aide. He soon moved to the position of substation technician and later promoted to manager of technical services.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Futrell, chairman of the board of directors, says, \u201cWe knew, with the strength of our internal employees, we could find our next CEO from within the cooperative. Alan has been instrumental in several positive changes the cooperative has made over his years of employment. We are confident in his ability to lead the cooperative in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank the board of directors for giving me such a great opportunity,\u201d Gates said. \u201cPennyrile Electric is a strong organization with great employees. I look forward to serving our membership and continuing our mission to provide safe reliable electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alan resides in Hopkinsville, Kentucky with his wife, Ashley. They have two children, Marley, 21, and Latham, 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Gates has been selected as Pennyrile Electric\u2019s next President and Chief Executive Officer. The cooperative\u2019s Board of Directors announced their decision this morning at the monthly board meeting to name Alan Gates as Pennyrile Electric\u2019s President &amp; CEO. Gates, who has most recently filled the role of vice president of operations and technical services, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/pennyrile-electric-names-new-president-ceo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pennyrile Electric Names New President &amp; CEO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.precc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}